Best thing in this is Archie Savage's pretty convincing fake of being in zero-g when he first gets out of his hibernation capsule. I later read that he had been a dancer. It shows in that scene. Other than that, I'm surprised I got through it.
Reviews
5 Reviews
The Call of the Wild
(2020)
Better than I expected
23 February 2020
This was not my choice for our weekly movie outing, but I liked it more than I expected. I'm not a fan of over-the-top movie computer graphics, and expected to be put off by overly anthropomorphic dogs; but I thought they were done amazingly well. I also love Harrison Ford, so it had that going for it as well.
The Wedding Guest
(2018)
Promising beginning but the rest of the story is left to the viewer's imagination.
18 March 2019
I would like to give this movie a higher rating. Both of the leads are incredibly attractive, and good actors who created characters who quickly captured my interest. The settings gave me an satisfying dose of some aspects of Indian and Pakistani culture and day to day realities, and what it might be like to exist in that space as a moderately privileged person. The plot setup in the beginning 25 minutes or so was good, and I thought "This might really go somewhere". But it didn't. It just kind of sat there, and then ended.
How It Ends
(2018)
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
8 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I like disaster porn, but eventually it has to include some coherant explanation of the cause, nature, and scope of the disaster. It doesn't have to make sense scientifically, but it has to be consistent within the context of the story. This movie doesn't meet that test. Instead, the screen is littered with clues to a cornucopia of different types of disasters, both natural and man made, and there is never an attempt to explain what actually happened, or even speculate further on the meaning of some of tbe clues. For example, when the leading man gets to Seattle, it clearly looks like there has been a massive volcanic event of some sort, but instead of any discussion of that, we get a scene where there is speculation about the whole thing being a simulation that went wrong. Also, if it was an unprecedentedly large natural disaster on the West Coast, why are people in Chicago instantly panicking and trying to get out of town? And where are the authories? There are trains of military equipment moving west, and then wrecked trains of military equipment, but nary a soldier, dead or alive, in sight.
I guess, given the title of the movie, "How It Ends", you could give the producers of the movie the artistic benefit of the doubt and say that if something so catastrophic happened that it was going to end civilization in a matter of days, the fog of confusion would be so great that it would be something like this movie.
I guess, given the title of the movie, "How It Ends", you could give the producers of the movie the artistic benefit of the doubt and say that if something so catastrophic happened that it was going to end civilization in a matter of days, the fog of confusion would be so great that it would be something like this movie.
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